Cells are SO WEIRD WHAT THE FUCK

I can do all things through spite, which strengthens me

...though we shouldn't really talk about Impressionism without acknowledging the monumental contributions of syphilis

Me: "And I just feel like the pad and tampon companies should be no-brainer sponsors for the PWHL. The 'tough period' campaign writes itself!" Guy checking our smoke detectors: "oh yeah no, TOTALLY"

'This power play brought to you by DIVA: the second official cup of the PWHL' #pwhl #lphf

'This power play brought to you by DIVA: for when you just need to get it in' #pwhl #lphf

New Orleans neighbors continue to care for pets abandoned during immigration crackdown The Louisiana SPCA reported a surge in pets being given up for adoption last year. The group’s CEO said that many people bringing them in said they used to belong to neighbors who were arrested or fleeing…

LOL, the soundtrack puts it over the top

You: please act normal, you need these people to like you Me: ok! People: hi Me: Parafilm is a semi-transparent, flexible film composed of a blend of waxes and polyolefins. It is a non-toxic, tasteless, odorless, and self-sealing thermoplastic, which can be stretched up to 200%

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It's not enough to stop treating higher education like a business (though that's a good start). We have to start treating education as a core human endeavor again. We have to resist subordinating intellectual life to its economic function. Leave workforce development to private industry.

One thing I find interesting is how LLMs fill in the same spot in society now as drugs did in the interwar period (and up to the 50s). Particularly amphetamine and methamphetamine. Their effect is vastly different lol, but I feel like the sociological reasons of their use is similar.

ELMER FUDD: ahhhhhwwwaa..... da spice mewange.... found oenwe on da desert pwanet of awwakis

So much horses all around lately

You can just put dark miso paste in your spaghetti sauce and make it exquisite. no one will stop you

It's not my job to stare wistfully out my office window at the birds and squirrels outside for long periods of time but I do get paid for it

logging on in spite of my greatest enemy, Time

"Knives Out" meets "Best In Show"! What if we helped these ladies make this amazing looking film even better by involving a puzzle designer??? The Greatest Treasure in the World: A Comedy from Isabella Roland + Siobhan Thompson seedandspark.com/fund/treasur...

All of the projects are agentic, of course. Hiring human researchers is DEI

No matter how bad a relationship you might have, no matter how lonely you might be without a partner - at least you aren’t married to this guy.

Don't click if you don't want to hear wild cougar kitten purrs. I said don't click!!! youtu.be/7EL1FRB11DU?...

The reason Peter Thiel destroyed Gawker--the real reason, not them reporting on the available info that he was gay, which they could pass off to dummies as cruel--was how viciously Valleywag reported on his hedge funds performing badly off his picks and guidance.

Oscar Isaac was in the Criterion Closet and he’s the first guy who I think properly understood that he gets all the movies for free and just overloaded the bag

One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."

the thing about 'historical norms' pre-1945 or so is they royally suck and kill large numbers of people

This is why it's important authors read a lot, Murakami has no idea this has been done already

How many dopamine neurons can dance on the head of a pin

On his way to steal yo girl (Provided yo girl is a tan-morph female White-throated Sparrow, since each sex of this species has two morphs that mate disassortatively and function like genders with associated behavioral differences.)

AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44. *Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers. It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)

Now, you might say, "What about all the knowledge we'd lose if we push all the abusive geniuses out of academia?!" But I'd counter and say, "Well, what about the knowledge we've already lost from the budding scholars whose careers they've derailed with their abuse?"

Same goes for every "genius" academic or scholar.

The other thing is that in a gig economy there is no degree that promises a good career anymore, not because you should have studied computer science or social media management instead of history or Russian literature, but because there are no careers

Traditional: "The mammalian cortex is composed of 17 billion neurons and we're not even sure of how many types there are" Revised: "The mammalian cortex is five neurons and they're all roomates"

‘if you don’t learn to use AI, you’ll get left behind!’ 🍆✊ www.patreon.com/posts/155290...

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

His ancestor

You Oughta Lounge Often

Yvonne Baur—photographer, former HPPA frontline superstar at our Hawai'i Volcanoes NP stores, & now full-time volcano student, just reposted this so we snatched it ASAP! What an amazing shot, Yvonne! · Life and Death 🌋🌿 "The 61g flow had some really cool photo opportunities." #HVNP #HPPA #Kilauea

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇

The utter inability of this piece to ask "but why does almost everyone carry gene variants increasing Alzheimer's risk? Is it possible those variants have been HEAVILY selected for? What if genes don't have only one job?" No let's do eugenics instead for money www.livescience.com/health/alzhe...

a billionaire must never make a decision because the billionaire can never be held accountable

Saw your boyfriend in Hobbycraft

Hey! That’s our Bsky friend and colleague @srheilbronner.bsky.social talking about the brain.

why are men

Some of you gave some really sassy quotes for this piece, but my favorite...well perhaps I shouldn't say which one is my favorite 💅

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Stoats are a Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, but their famous winter-white molt does have them at risk of local extirpation, along with habitat loss. They thought passenger pigeons were forever at one point too! It's never too early to work to conserve native species you care about! #2026MMM